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Topshots of the Week (15-21 October, 2022)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (15-21 October, 2022).
Protesters gesture around a portrait of "Lola" reading 'justice for Lola' during a rally called by the far-right organization 'Institut pour la Justice' in Paris on october 20, 2022. Far-right figures gather to pay tribute to murdered 12-year-old whose brutalised body was found in a trunk in a killing that shocked France. The brutalised body of the victim, identified only as "Lola" under French law, was found in a plastic box after going missing in northeast Paris last week. A 24-year-old woman from Algeria was quickly identified as the main suspect and detained. Police have determined she had a history of psychiatric disorders.
© Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP
A dummy target is exploded by use of mines by Indian Navy's divers, as a part of rehearsals for the upcoming defence equipment exhibition – Defence Expo 2022, at the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad on October 16, 2022.
© Sam PANTHAKY / AFP
Soldiers of the Swiss special forces command perfom, suspended from an helicopter, during the annual live fire event over the Axalp in the Bernese Oberland, on October 19, 2022. At an altitude of 2,200 meters above sea level, spectators attended a unique aviation display performed at the highest air force firing range in Europe.
© Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP
A handout picture provided by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) shows Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi competing during the women boulder finals of the Asian Championships of the IFSC in Seoul, South Korea. Alarm grew on October 18, 2022 over the wellbeing of Iranian sports climber Elnaz Rekabi after she competed at an event in South Korea without a hijab in what some saw as a gesture of solidarity with the women-led protests at home. Rekabi, 33, in her first comment since the event on October 16 apologised on Instagram for the "concerns" caused and insisted that her bare-headed appearance had been "unintentional". She had come fourth representing Iran in the boulder and lead combined event at the Asian Championships in Seoul.
© Rhea KANG / AFP
A demonstrator with an Iranian flag painted on her face, shouts slogans as she participates in a rally outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul on October 17, 2022 after the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini, five weeks ago. Amini, 22, died on September 16, 2022, three days after she was arrested by Iran's notorious morality police.
© Yasin AKGUL / AFP
Children play amid a sandstorm at the Sahlah al-Banat camp for displaced people in the countryside of Raqa in northern Syria on October 17, 2022.
© Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
80 year-old Luba reacts during shelling in the town of Bakhmut on October 15, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
Protesters march from Nation towards Place de la Bastille during a rally against soaring living costs and climate inaction called by French left-wing coalition NUPES (New People's Ecologic and Social Union) in Paris on October 16, 2022.
© Julien DE ROSA / AFP